Marma people

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Marma is also a genus of jumping spiders.

The Marma is an Arakanese tribe inhabiting the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. As of 2001, their population stood at 150,000. Ethnically related to the Chakma, they are largely followers of Theravada Buddhism, of which their belief system is mixed with Animism.

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